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Written by Kim and Charles Petty on April 26th, 2008
by Kim and Charles Petty

With the awareness of the importance of list building, comes a recent Internet Marketing trend which was started just a couple of years ago for the mutual benefits of all Internet Marketers and mailing list owners.

This method is more recognized as a “starting a Give Away venture”.

In a real sense, a Give Away event is much like a big time version of ad swaps. In a nutshell, a group of mailing list owners partner together and pool in their individual gifts in one limited-time event.

Each participating partner contributes a gift to the event. The gift can be a free product, membership pass or a product he is already selling (if he is kind enough to offer into the event).

The participating partner prepares a Lead Capture Page where he gives the gift in exchange for the subscriber’s email address. In other words, in order for a visitor to download the digital gift, he must opt in and subscribe to your mailing list.

When the gifts are pooled together into one event (site), every partner will then endorse the Give Away event to their own mailing lists.

The result: lots of visitors to one event as a collective effort of several participating partners!

With so many visitors downloading gifts from one focused event, it is a true win-win situation. This is because the visitors get to download several free gifts for their own use and every partner gets to build their own mailing list!

You can easily get notified about a Give Away event in the making by communicating with other Internet Marketers often or participating in Internet Marketing discussion and Joint Venture boards.

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Written by Kim and Charles Petty on April 26th, 2008
by Kim and Charles Petty

Improve your marketing and sales with some auto responder Improvements. Try some of these:

1. Publish free reports to send via your auto responder. The reports should be related to your business or web site & contain info, ads and links to your sites. People love getting freebies.

2. Collect vital customer satisfaction information by publishing a survey to send via auto responder to those who sign up on your site in exchange for a free eBook, software or trial period at your membership site. This type of information will help you understand their needs, likes & dislikes better.

3. Instead of answering each customer question that is e-mailed to you, publish “Frequently Ask Questions” and make them available via auto responder to those who sign up. To save time and support headaches.

4. Instead of publishing all of your customer testimonials or endorsements on your website, publish only a few there. And set up an auto responder form that invites visitors to receive a complete list via your. Give them a power-packed list; it’s more effective to include all of them.

Mix and match. Change your auto responder strategy to change your auto responder results!

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Written by Kim and Charles Petty on April 24th, 2008
by Kim and Charles Petty

Everyday that goes by you can bet that any serious website owner is wondering how to get more traffic to their site. This intense desire to generate more clicks makes virtually any online entrepreneur easy prey to many of the traffic schemes and scams that pervade the Internet.

Wild promises of high volume traffic and big bucks often separate even the most savvy business person from their money because they want to believe the promises made by these traffic hucksters. The problem is that high volume doesn’t necessarily translate into a high sales rate.

The visitors who come to your website as a result of a desire to find out more on a specific, niche topic, not as a result of exit traffic or membership in a safe list where members simply pitch each other. Good traffic comes from people clicking links on topics targeted to their interests and getting directed to a website containing information they want and expect as a result of clicking the link. The bottom line is that when you get right down to it the best and most dependable sources of targeted traffic come from links that people click.

Being able to determine which clicks actually result in sales is vital. To track conversions from click to sales, depending on the type of shopping cart software you are using, you can then create a custom order confirmation page - i.e. the page that is displayed once the transaction is complete. This is very easy to do if you’re using a payment processing service such as PayPal.

It’s well known that each search engine and each web site has a particular type of user (age, interests etc.), and they’ll all have different triggers leading them to purchase. All of these things are important for you to know so that your advertising dollars will be spent in the most advantageous places.

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Written by Derrick on April 23rd, 2008

Internet marketers, I need a couple of minutes of your time. Please help me out.
 
I need to share some things.
 
A couple of years ago I started working on building websites to make money. After a while, I learnt that I was doing something called internet marketing
 
Like me you learnt some other stuff. You found that you need traffic to your websites and you need to change visitors from interested readers to action takers.
 
It is not easy

  • We are making blogs.
  • We are adding Adsense.
  • We are researching affiliate products.
  • We are getting all this stuff right… Yes?
    OK, so why aren’t we feeling like we’re getting richer?
     
    I looked around for solutions. As we both know there are plenty of people keen to sell a ’secret’ - yup, the same secrets that will be shared only with me and a million other folks. All sorts of traffic schemes - bars on screens, traffic exchanges, funky popups and a truckload of other toys and tricks.
     
    None of them will change your business because they don’t hit the right buttons. They fiddle with the margins but don’t address the basic issues.
     
    The truth is that, in reality, getting traffic generation right IS easy!
     
    We need backlinks and traffic. Just like always!
    If enough folks know where to find our pages and we tell the folks what we offer we will get the backlinks and traffic that lead to free traffic building.
     
    BUT I found that the crazy money suckers and time eating toys were not the way to succeed. All that I really needed was a way to build backlinks and traffic in ‘normal’ ways.
    I threw out the nonsensical toys and went back to the fundamentals and this is what I did:

  • I was commenting on blogs.
  • I used social bookmarking
  • I took part in social networking communities
  • I was posting articles on article directories
  • I was exchanging articles with other site owners
  • and guess what happened…?
    IT WORKED!
    More Backlinks and More Turnover!

    Nothing is perfect though.
    I was spending a lot of time on marketing my sites. Webmasters were again and again suspicious of my attempts to exchange content - their fingers burned too many times by shady characters.
    It took AGES to find good partners for link exchanges and the blog commenting was still a advantageous technique but too many spam artists and ‘no follow’ links reduced its effectiveness and sucked away at my time.
     
    Then, back in January some pieces came together. A new membership site opened up to just a few members. The new site was from the guys behind PortalFeeder - guys whose names I already knew: Jason Potash, Jason Katzenback and Marc Quarles. Each name was a trusted man behind a range of quality products and each was  standing behind this new concept, a service that rocked my world.
     
    What were the guys doing? What was their shtick?
    Actually the offer was not so new - and yet it was unique and brand new at the same time.
    They used the basic ingredients of success - yes, you guessed: backlinks and traffic.

    Taking the fundamental techniques of content exchanges, link exchanges, social methods (Web 2.0) and article submissions and remade them so that we could do the jobs we needed and at a speed that made the process realizable all over again.

    The Traffic Kahuna guys have several components to share with you and even though I use these tools they can tell you about them superior than I can.
    Please, click on THIS LINK and ask for more information. They won’t bury you with irrelevant emails. They will share with you some of the tools that we use in Traffic Kahuna and demonstrate how they help us.

    More importantly, when the doors to Traffic Kahuna reopen with more membership seats you will know as [soon] as it happens and be ready to make a decision - the same choice I made, to go back to the fundamentals and do it right, or to continue messing around with the newest bright ideas from some Johnny-Come-Lately.
     
    There is no commitment, except to your own curiosity and need to succeed.
     
    Oh, there is one thing to think about.
    How you reached this page…
     
    You are here because the techniques used in Traffic Kahuna work!
     
    ALL the promotion used to get you here is from Traffic Kahuna - Think about it!
     
    Visit Traffic Kahuna and request more information.
     
    I look forward to working with you in TK!
     
    Andrew Wilson.